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- Chaos in the Afghan capital of Kabul

as thousands of frantic civilians,

afraid for their lives under Taliban rule,

desperately try to escape.

As panicked Afghans clamored onto planes,

US soldiers fired warningshots into the air.

Hundreds more carried their suitcases

as they rushed out of Kabul on foot.

- This is manifestly not Saigon.

- [Dale] But it looks the same,

complete with US military helicopters

carrying embassy personnel to safety.

The US embassy now evacuated.

The Taliban broadcasting on live TV

from the equivalent of the Oval Office

at the presidential palace

after rolling into the capital Sunday

as the president fled the country.

This is something JoeBiden said six weeks ago

would never happen.

- [Reporter] Your own intelligencecommunity has assessed

that the Afghan governmentwill likely collapse.

- That is not true.

They did not, they didnot reach that conclusion.

There's gonna be no circumstance

where you see people beinglifted off the roof of a embassy.

The likelihood there's going to be

the Taliban overrunning everything

and owning the wholecountry is highly unlikely.

- [Dale] Texas Congressman Michael McCaul,

the ranking member on the HouseForeign Affairs Committee,

says Joe Biden blew it on Afghanistan.

- I think it's an unmitigateddisaster of epic proportions.

And I think the president...

This is gonna be a stain on this president

and his presidency, andI think he's gonna have

blood on his hands for what they did.

- [Dale] Secretary of State Antony Blinken

was in full damage controlon the Sunday talk shows,

trying to defend the US withdrawal

and the chaos that has ensued.

- The fact of the matter is this.

We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago

with one mission in mind,and that was to deal

with the people who attacked us on 9/11,

and that mission has been successful.

- [Dale] The Trump administration

initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal,

but Republican CongressmanSteve Scalise points out

that Trump's plan was based on the Taliban

meeting certain conditions.

- In fact, many of the conditions included

that the Taliban wouldn'tovertake the cities

that they have now overtaken

under President Biden's leadership.

- [Dale] The Taliban have tried

to reassure frightened Afghans,

but this phone video shows the bodies

of people pulled from theirhomes by Taliban fighters

in Kandahar and shot.

Thousands of Afghans whohelped the US military

face a similar fate ifthey can't be evacuated.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is being criticized

for holing himself up at Camp David

away from journalists'potentially embarrassing questions

about what his critics are calling

his foreign policy disaster.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.